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by nmehner 2y ago
AI might be nice to generate stuff. But as all code generators it has the issue of supporting the generated code long term. With AI it is even worse: You don't get reproducible runs: Trying to fix a simple layout bug and suddenly some
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by nmehner 3y ago
Don't most applications that use threads also use thread pools because thread creation is expensive? I guess these comparisons are nice to get a feeling how expensive operations are. But has it a lot real world relevancy? In practice m
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by nmehner 4y ago
Looking at demographics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_South_Korea in 1955 900.000 people were born in Korea. In 2022 about 250.000. The population in 2021 only decreased by 60.000 but this number will
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by nmehner 4y ago
https://energy-charts.info/charts/installed_power/chart.htm?... Please don't look at short term effects when trying to judge the energy transition. France might restart a coal plant because of issues with its
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by nmehner 4y ago
On 1.: Birth rates are stable since about 1990 and declining since 2017: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-number-of-births-b... China had almost 30 million births in 1963, but only had 10 million last year. T
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Kakao service disruptions cause nationwide mayhem (Korea)(koreatimes.co.kr)
2 points by nmehner 4y ago|2 comments
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by nmehner 4y ago
"The simultaneous shutdown of 32,000 servers rarely occurs in the IT industry," Yang said.
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by nmehner 4y ago
> ... this is actively intervening in how you use your own car. Traffic laws already limit how you are allowed to use your own car. This just prevents you from breaking the law. Your freedom ends where the freedom of another person to li
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by nmehner 4y ago
The average car in Europe drives 30km a day and is parked more than 23h. So a charged battery will have a moving 10 day window to be charged again. This is a great use case for renewable energy. 10 days of Dunkelflaute does not happen a lot
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by nmehner 4y ago
New car models take time to develop. Factories and supply chains take time to build. 10 years is basically telling car companies to stop developing ICE cars right now and go search for more supply of battery materials. And government has th
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by nmehner 4y ago
I am sorry, but your comment is very uninformed. * Cows produce methane, cars produce CO2. Talking about "pollution" just muddies the waters. According to https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector lifestock p
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by nmehner 4y ago
Well, yes, you are right. These are actually two steps: Melt everything into the "Black Mass" and use Hydrometallurgy to extract the metals afterwards. I think https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XylDkcrJgTw gives a g
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by nmehner 4y ago
At least in the EU/UK it is required by law to recycle 95% of a car: https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/car-news/95207/car-recycling-h... A problem with plastics is that it is hard to create high quality plastics
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by nmehner 4y ago
For the U.S.: https://cleantechnica.com/2022/05/20/li-cycles-battery-recyc... "The battery recycling plant can process the equivalent of batteries required for around 20,000 EVs per annum." For Eur
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by nmehner 4y ago
Germany has about 40GWh of pumped water storage. This is used for extending solar into the evening/morning (on a typical day about 1300GWh of electricity are consumed in total). About 5% of electricity need can be provided by Norway th
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by nmehner 4y ago
This article is just wrong. The premise is: * About 35% of Germany’s gas is used to generate electricity. * Eliminating German electricity from gas would thus nearly eliminate Germany’s purchase of Russian gas. But Germany only us
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by nmehner 5y ago
"Stellantis has announced its commitment to sell only electric vehicles in Europe from 2026, following in the footsteps of several other manufacturers that revealed similar moves." So an option in 2024 and all electric by 2026. Wh
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by nmehner 5y ago
Mercedes-Benz EQA Mercedes-Benz EQB Mercedes-Benz EQC Mercedes-Benz EQS MERCEDES-BENZ EQV MERCEDES-BENZ eSprinter MERCEDES-BENZ eVito ... are already being sold. Are all being sold. EQE will be released this year. Smart is already all elect
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by nmehner 5y ago
Daimler stopped development of combustion engines almost three years ago: https://electrek.co/2019/09/19/daimler-stops-developing-inte... . Volkswagen will not develop new combustion engines: https:/&#x
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by nmehner 5y ago
Stellantis (Opel/Citroen/Fiat/...) will be all electric by 2026: https://insideevs.com/news/570731/stellantis-electric-europe... Volvo will by all electric by 2030: https://www.autoservic
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by nmehner 5y ago
There has already been some progress ( https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/germany-made-progres... ): "Habeck said imports of Russian oil now accounted for 25% of German imports, down from 35% before the i
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by nmehner 5y ago
By 2025 probably the majority of new cars in Europe will be electric and by 2027 >80%. After that the share of electric cars in the fleet will increase by about 4-6% every year. Almost complete electrification will probably take until 20
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by nmehner 5y ago
On a sunny march day currently about 18% of all electricity is generated from solar. Also there is a lots of wind in winter and solar works better in summer so the combination works quite well.
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by nmehner 5y ago
Transportation and heating will be electrified. Electric car share in new cars is 15% and climbing fast. New gas/oil heating installations will be (almost) forbidden from 2024 on (65% of heating energy must come from renewable energies
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by nmehner 5y ago
There is only a handful of qualification matches and each league is using a different ball anyways: http://football-balls.com/balls Probably they are all quite similar and having a new type of ball for a tournament is more
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by nmehner 5y ago
Please take a look at the actual regulations: https://ec.europa.eu/finance/docs/level-2-measures/taxonomy-... states the conditions for investments in gas to be considered green is > (ii) the power to b
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by nmehner 5y ago
That is if you see sanctions as an all or nothing approach. For Europe the approach will have to be to reduce consumption step by step. This is not as glorious as stopping all imports in one day, but it will hurt Russia nevertheless. Also t
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by nmehner 5y ago
Do you really think so? Russia has no way of winning this conflict. Their military is facing huge losses (increasing their demographic problems), there is no way they can keep Ukraine occupied and they have given up on regime change. The Ru
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by nmehner 5y ago
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/1-korean-air-cancel-passenger... Perhaps they are also running out of fuel. Air Korea stopped flights to Russia as well citing lack of fuel. Seems the sanctions are really hitting hard.
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by nmehner 5y ago
You can see the usage for electricity ("Stromversorgung") in https://www.bdew.de/service/daten-und-grafiken/entwicklung-d... . Actually in 2021 it was only 12.7% instead of 15%. This includes all electri

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